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Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Beyond agentic AI: Autonomous factories, exoskeletons, and AI as a physical stack
Shanker Trivedi, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business, NVIDIA Pradeep Gupta, Vice President, Generative AI & Accelerated Computing, NVIDIA Susan Marshall, Senior Director, Developer Relations, NVIDIA Prerna Dogra, Director, Product Management & Developer Ecosystems, Healthcare AI, NVIDIA Rajani Parameshwar, Senior Director, Corporate Development, NVIDIA Live Events Next generation warehouses and factories that autonomously produce cars. Wearable exoskeletons that respond to a person's movements in real time and enhance ergonomic support, mobility, and rehabilitation. 'Embodied' hospitals that have AI integrated in physical agents such as robots to support operational and medical tasks. The everyman — whether a biologist, librarian, musician, and so on — as a developer in a specific of this may sound like science fiction, but it is science fact that will inevitably come to be in the near future. That was the broad takeaway of the grand panel, 'The Future of AI – Platforms, Innovation, & Investments' on day three of TiEcon 2025, the world's largest tech conference, and the biggest in its 32-year history, took place this May in the heart of Silicon Valley. The conference brought together 3,000-plus entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders from around the globe. With over 180 speakers and this year's theme, 'AiVerse', the conference showcased the transformative power of innovation. Under the leadership of TiE Silicon Valley President Anita Manwani, TiEcon continues to drive a culture of transformational change, fostering new ideas, connections, and opportunities for the next wave of global panelists for 'The Future of AI – Platforms, Innovation, & Investments' were:Some highlights from the discussion:Apart from exoskeletons that can detect intent and locomotion and support wearers without manual input, AI use cases in healthcare extend to brain-computer interfaces, especially for conditions like Alzheimer's disease. In hospitals, embodied AI can function autonomously through a combination of sensors, robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. And in the realm of biotechnology, initiatives such as AlphaFold are predicting protein structures with atomic-level precision, revolutionising medical and biological research.'Our journey started about 15 years ago with sensor processing. Building on that stack, we now have a world-class, medical-grade, real-time sensor processing platform called HoloScan. It's the first of its kind: the foundation of what we're seeing in intuitive, robotics-assisted surgery,' Prerna Dogra said. 'We also founded an open-source project called MONAI or the Medical Open Network for AI. It's crossed five million downloads and is a benchmark in medical R&D. There's an explosion of startups and AI agents shaping how care is delivered. In Silicon Valley alone, you have 17, 18, 19 such verticals.'NVIDIA's Developer Relations division is bridging the gap between developers and cutting-edge tech by giving stakeholders — including startup founders — the partnership and support required to build applications accelerated by Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Its Senior Director Susan Marshall, a former founder herself, now works with startups across financial services, robotics, and healthcare for their full AI stacks. Through prepackaged 'containers' called NVIDIA Inference Microservices or NIMS, the company offers workstations, data centres, and neo-clouds that effectively streamline the running of AI models.'We now have 22,000 startups in our programme, and it's growing. It could even be two guys in a garage that have a great idea, and we'll go out and help,' Marshall said. 'NVIDIA is a very founder-friendly company. We are check size-agnostic and stage agnostic. Between the two investing arms of NVIDIA, CorpDev and Nventures, we pretty much cover a wide gamut of startups.'NVIDIA is currently helping solve domain-specific problems in 20-plus industries, ranging from drug discovery and retail checkouts to algorithmic trading and digital twins in is a major investor in 'neo-clouds' or AI-focussed cloud providers. And because GPUs are energy-intensive, the company has taken a proactive approach to partnering with startups that work to reduce energy bottlenecks via sustainable energy solutions such as wind, solar, geothermal, and carbon company's Jetson edge AI platform is also being deployed in smart meters in the US. Capabilities include processing troves of local energy data, predicting grid conditions, helping utility providers optimise load management, and helping consumers reduce their bills through real-time energy management.
Economic Times
2 days ago
- Business
- Economic Times
‘If cyber crime was a country, it would be the third largest GDP'
When it comes to cyber crime, the numbers are stark: ADVERTISEMENT It currently costs the world $9.2 trillion On average, it takes a threat actor 72 minutes to gain access to user data, and that number is going down About 20% of data breaches today are as a result of insiders As the world's largest security company, Microsoft tracks 7,000 password attacks each second. That's 600 million attacks a day The number of attackers (such as unique nation state actors and financial crime actors) Microsoft is tracking has gone from an average of 300 every day to 1,500 increase. These were some of the eye-opening statistics Microsoft's CVP of Security, Vasu Jakkal, underlined in her revelatory keynote address on day two of TiEcon 2025, the world's largest tech conference, and the biggest in its 32-year history, took place this May in the heart of Silicon Valley. The conference brought together 3,000-plus entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders from around the globe. With over 180 speakers and this year's theme, 'AiVerse', the conference showcased the transformative power of innovation. Under the leadership of TiE Silicon Valley President Anita Manwani, TiEcon continues to drive a culture of transformational change, fostering new ideas, connections, and opportunities for the next wave of global entrepreneurs. In keeping with the AiVerse theme, Jakkal underscored the importance of security as a foundation for AI. Because Microsoft has a $20 billion security business that processes 84 trillion signals every day, it is uniquely positioned to observe emerging threats such as wallet abuse, word prompt injections, and large language model (LLM) poisoning. Other highlights from the keynote included: How agentic AI can bolster securityAgentic AI, designed to autonomously make decisions and accomplish given goals with minimal human supervision, is already addressing challenges in healthcare, education, transportation, and security. In the near future, both individuals and organisations could have agentic AI in the form of unique, interactive personas. Think an agent that helps with deep research for your startup, an analyst agent that converts raw data into insights, a chief staff agent that manages schedules every day, or even a home companion agent that can tutor children and plan family such agents become digital colleagues and thought partners, the question to ask is: what risk can their prevalence pose to us? This is where critical security considerations come in. The questions to ask are: ADVERTISEMENT What is your identity strategy? What permissions do such agents have? How are you protecting your data? Do you have the right data leakage policies If agents are working across teams, companies, or homes, what are the privacy considerations? As agents become pervasive, human defences will need to scale at the speed and scale of AI. Which is why we need to think about agents for security, and AI for security in general. In 2023, Microsoft began focusing on security-focused AI by launching the GPT-4-based Security Co-Pilot. It takes open source models, grounds them on the trillions of security signals and data in its repository, and refines them on security skills. The result is faster and more accurate threat prevention. ADVERTISEMENT How agentic AI can address gaps in security Around 4.6 million jobs in security remain unfulfilled globally. In this context, AI agents can enable potential talent to develop required today is largely reactive. Agentic AI agents can predict and stop novel attacks before they happen. As an example, they can identify data risks when an organisation puts data structures in place. They can autonomously apply identity and access policies so the right people can have access to the right things at the right time, for the right reasons. And such policies can be dynamically adjusted. ADVERTISEMENT In workplaces, such agents can also be part of SaaS AI apps or custom enterprise offerings such as the Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Vertex. What more Microsoft is doing to secure the future of AI In November 2023, Microsoft launched the Secure Future Initiative, a multi-year cybersecurity effort that shapes how it designs, builds, tests, and operates products and services to meet security standards. Apart from operating the largest security initiative in the world, Microsoft ties executive compensation to security and has 14 deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) who oversee security engineering teams. Employees across the company are also taken through a security skill academy. ADVERTISEMENT 'We review our security updates with Satya [Nadella, CEO] every other week and send a report every week. And we have a meeting with the board, of course, every quarter. The first meeting starts with security,' Vasu Jakkal shared. 'Security is a team sport. It deeply matters and turbocharges our product flywheel of defence, because we use all these learnings from security to build better products.' TiEcon 2025, which ran from April 30 to May 2, featured eminent tech executives as other grand keynote speakers. ICYMI, here are the takeaways from Satya Nadella's discussion on what makes a generational company in the AI age.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
‘If cyber crime was a country, it would be the third largest GDP'
When it comes to cyber crime, the numbers are stark: It currently costs the world $9.2 trillion On average, it takes a threat actor 72 minutes to gain access to user data, and that number is going down About 20% of data breaches today are as a result of insiders As the world's largest security company, Microsoft tracks 7,000 password attacks each second. That's 600 million attacks a day The number of attackers (such as unique nation state actors and financial crime actors) Microsoft is tracking has gone from an average of 300 every day to 1,500 increase. These were some of the eye-opening statistics Microsoft's CVP of Security, Vasu Jakkal, underlined in her revelatory keynote address on day two of TiEcon 2025. TiEcon 2025, the world's largest tech conference, and the biggest in its 32-year history, took place this May in the heart of Silicon Valley. The conference brought together 3,000-plus entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders from around the globe. With over 180 speakers and this year's theme, 'AiVerse', the conference showcased the transformative power of innovation. Under the leadership of TiE Silicon Valley President Anita Manwani, TiEcon continues to drive a culture of transformational change, fostering new ideas, connections, and opportunities for the next wave of global entrepreneurs. In keeping with the AiVerse theme, Jakkal underscored the importance of security as a foundation for AI. Because Microsoft has a $20 billion security business that processes 84 trillion signals every day, it is uniquely positioned to observe emerging threats such as wallet abuse, word prompt injections, and large language model (LLM) poisoning. Other highlights from the keynote included: How agentic AI can bolster security Agentic AI, designed to autonomously make decisions and accomplish given goals with minimal human supervision, is already addressing challenges in healthcare, education, transportation, and security. In the near future, both individuals and organisations could have agentic AI in the form of unique, interactive personas. Think an agent that helps with deep research for your startup, an analyst agent that converts raw data into insights, a chief staff agent that manages schedules every day, or even a home companion agent that can tutor children and plan family trips. Live Events You Might Also Like: Culture, compassion, compute: Satya Nadella on what makes a generational company in the AI age As such agents become digital colleagues and thought partners, the question to ask is: what risk can their prevalence pose to us? This is where critical security considerations come in. The questions to ask are: Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories What is your identity strategy? What permissions do such agents have? How are you protecting your data? Do you have the right data leakage policies If agents are working across teams, companies, or homes, what are the privacy considerations? As agents become pervasive, human defences will need to scale at the speed and scale of AI. Which is why we need to think about agents for security, and AI for security in general. In 2023, Microsoft began focusing on security-focused AI by launching the GPT-4-based Security Co-Pilot. It takes open source models, grounds them on the trillions of security signals and data in its repository, and refines them on security skills. The result is faster and more accurate threat prevention. How agentic AI can address gaps in security Around 4.6 million jobs in security remain unfulfilled globally. In this context, AI agents can enable potential talent to develop required competencies. Security today is largely reactive. Agentic AI agents can predict and stop novel attacks before they happen. As an example, they can identify data risks when an organisation puts data structures in place. They can autonomously apply identity and access policies so the right people can have access to the right things at the right time, for the right reasons. And such policies can be dynamically adjusted. In workplaces, such agents can also be part of SaaS AI apps or custom enterprise offerings such as the Azure AI Foundry, Amazon Bedrock, or Google Vertex. What more Microsoft is doing to secure the future of AI In November 2023, Microsoft launched the Secure Future Initiative, a multi-year cybersecurity effort that shapes how it designs, builds, tests, and operates products and services to meet security standards. Apart from operating the largest security initiative in the world, Microsoft ties executive compensation to security and has 14 deputy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) who oversee security engineering teams. Employees across the company are also taken through a security skill academy. 'We review our security updates with Satya [Nadella, CEO] every other week and send a report every week. And we have a meeting with the board, of course, every quarter. The first meeting starts with security,' Vasu Jakkal shared. 'Security is a team sport. It deeply matters and turbocharges our product flywheel of defence, because we use all these learnings from security to build better products.' TiEcon 2025, which ran from April 30 to May 2, featured eminent tech executives as other grand keynote speakers. ICYMI, here are the takeaways from Satya Nadella's discussion on what makes a generational company in the AI age.
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
TiEcon 2025: What it takes to be a sport and cultivate cultural capital in the age of AI
The 2025 edition of TiEcon, one of the world's largest,most influential entrepreneurship-focussed events, kicked off with a panel comprising some of the most powerful executives in sports and entertainment. Titled 'Owning and Winning - Sports Media & Entertainment Binds Culture', the opening grand keynote was moderated by Jagdeep Singh Bachher, Chief Investment Officer, Office of the President, University of California. It featured: Vivek Ranadive , Chairman, CEO, and Governor, Sacramento Kings Thomas C. Werner , Chairman, Fenway Sports Group (FSG) Paul Wachter , Founder & CEO, Main Street Advisors Satyan Gajwani , Vice Chairman, Times Internet The highlights of the opener at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California, were the freewheeling yet insightful stories by the panelists on being changemakers in industry-leading companies and the role of AI in their respective domains. Thomas Werner, who also chairs Major League Baseball franchise Boston Red Sox and Liverpool FC in the Premier League, discussed the different use cases of AI in football and baseball. Vivek Ranadive shared his journey from Mumbai to owning the Sacramento Kings and leveraging data for fan engagement. Satyan Gajwani discussed the rise of Major League Cricket in the US. Paul Wachter emphasised authenticity in cultural influence and managing athletes' finances. Here are some of the highlights of the opening keynote: Vivek Ranadive on immigrating to the US and acquiring the Kings 'My life's defining moment was the Apollo moon landing in 1969. I was a little boy in Bombay and had a transistor radio plastered to my ear. That was when I heard the magical words, 'One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'. I thought, 'Wow, who are these people that were able to take a man, put him in a box and send him that far away to land on a rock for the very first time — flawlessly, too?' Live Events That was when I told myself I'd be one of them, that I'd get to get to the US. I showed up in Boston with just $50 in my pocket but big dreams in my head. And eventually ended up starting some companies. I got very lucky. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories One day, David Stern [former commissioner of the NBA] called me and asked me to save the [Sacramento] Kings. [Former Microsoft CEO] Steve Ballmer had made a deal to move them to Seattle, and I'd moved to California by then. Everything I have now, I owe to this great state. So I jumped in and bought the Kings. And here we are.' Thomas Werner on AI applications in football and baseball 'One of the myriad ways we use AI in soccer [football] is that we now have been able to collect every single corner kick that was done in the Premier League last year. I think there were like 7,000, and we've studied where our defenders should be, where we should be doing corner kicks from, and where we should position our players. Some are just some of a hundred different ways in which we've been using AI. It's all data-driven. In baseball, we can now look at the arm slot of a pitcher if he's not pitching well and quickly make any corrections. It's much more than, 'Hey, I saw your arm motion, and it's not like what it was three times earlier, when you pitched a shutout.' The information is fast, objective, and fabulous.' Paul Wachter on authenticity and the roots of Billie Eilish's fragrance line 'The internet is flooded with influencers of all kinds. Unfortunately, what's happened now with this diaspora of influence is that it's losing its credibility and authenticity. I like to tell this story about Billie Eilish, who I've worked with since she was 16 or 17 years old. She was passionate about fragrance and she had a little vial of perfume she carried around with her. She didn't remember where she'd gotten it, but she'd smell it. She wouldn't use it because she had so little left. During Covid-19, we asked her if we could explore recreating the fragrance she was so obsessed with. We sent it to a lab, which then came back with seven versions of what they thought it could be. She started smelling them over a Zoom call, and when she got to number three, she started crying and said, 'This. This is the thing I want to recreate.' That's how we launched her fragrance line, which has been a huge, huge success. I think every consumer today can — not to pun — smell the difference. If it's not authentic, they know.' Satyan Gajwani on cultural capital 'We have really large news brands, sports brands and other things of that sort. But increasingly, a lot of my focus has been about India's global capital, and how we can become an important power and cultural centre around the world. Inevitably, cricket very much strikes at the core of that. It's the second biggest sport in the world, but under-penetrated in the US. So about five years ago, we started Major League Cricket [MLC]. We'll have our third season this summer. We think of MLC as a way to popularise not just the sport, but also the global influence of Indian culture.' TiEcon 2025, which took place from April 30 to May 2, also featured eminent tech executives as keynote speakers. ICYMI, here are the takeaways from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's discussion on what makes a generational company in the AI age.
Economic Times
23-04-2025
- Business
- Economic Times
TiEcon 2025: Who's the organiser of Silicon Valley's biggest AI event?
Satya Nadella , Chairman and CEO, Microsoft , Chairman and CEO, Microsoft Shantanu Narayen , Chair and CEO, Adobe , Chair and CEO, Adobe Lip-Bu Tan , CEO, Intel Corporation , CEO, Intel Corporation Vivek Ranadive , Chairman, CEO, and Governor, Sacramento Kings , Chairman, CEO, and Governor, Sacramento Kings Shankar Trivedi , Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business, NVIDIA , Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business, NVIDIA Satyan Gajwani, Vice Chairman, Times Internet AI's Impact on Future Mobility: Automotive & Mobility Securing the AI-Driven Future: Cybersecurity Frontiers of Innovation: AI Driving Defense, Drones, Space Tech Work reimagined! How humans will be involved in the future of work: Enterprise AI Al's Influence on Global Talent, Investments & Policies: Global Connect Guardrails & Ethics Building & Scaling GTM in the AI Era: Go-to-Market Innovate Healthcare with AI: Healthcare & Lifesciences Smarter Faster to Your Doorstep: Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Retail New Age of Media & Entertainment Personalizing, Prediction & Pricing: Retail Tech & E-Commerce Beyond ChatGPT: Semiconductor & Deep Tech Influenced over $1 trillion in wealth Helped create more than two million jobs Achieved a subscribed audience of 40,000 and counting Impacted over 25,000 startups Served as a launchpad for the likes of Kirthiga Reddy, the first woman partner at SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund. Live Events Come April 30, all eyes will be on the Santa Clara Convention Center as more than 3,000 attendees, 150 speakers, and over 50 sponsors converge for this year's AiVerse theme. Investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, innovators, tech professionals, and students will attend nearly 40 sessions spread across 12 tracks, all focussed on the immense — and untapped — potential of applied AI. The event will conclude on May features keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, bootcamps, and networking opportunities with some of the world's biggest industry leaders. Here are some of the grand keynote speakers at TiEcon 2025:The tracks for this year's edition of the world's biggest entrepreneurship-focussed event are:TiEcon, a flagship event by TiE Silicon Valley (TiE SV), is an initiative by The IndUS Entrepreneurs (hence TiE), a non-profit with 60+ chapters across 17 countries. TiE was founded in 1992 by a group of Indian-American professionals, entrepreneurs and executives. For 33 years now, the organisation has become an indispensable platform within the tech ecosystem for its mentoring, collaborating, funding, and incubation programmesSpearheaded by Anita Manwani, President and Board Chair, TiE Silicon Valley demonstrates a bullseye focus on entrepreneurs and hosts almost 100 programmes annually that accelerate entrepreneurs at every stage of their growth journey. Anita, a serial entrepreneur, a seasoned corporate executive and philanthropist, has transformed TiE brand and offerings together with Ajay Manglani, Chief Operating Officer of TiE Silicon Valley, by bringing relevance and mojo back within the current generation of entrepreneurs. TiE Silicon Valley, also deemed as the world's original startup accelerator, has a strong network of enterprises and corporates, which is critical for startups because their growth and scale rely on these enterprises. It has achieved the following remarkable milestones:With AiVerse as the theme, TiEcon 2025 promises three days of unparalleled, incisive insights on all things AI. Head to the website to register right away and watch this space for additional information about tracks, speakers, workshops, bootcamps, and much more.
